Web-Based
Delivery of Federal Documents: As Census Goes, So Goes the Nation?
Due to looming
budget restraints, the Government Printing Office, the Federal Depository
Library Program, and the state library systems will face a sea of changes.
Denise Hamilton looks at how these changes will impact the role of the
librarian within these systems.

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Counting
Heads Around the World: The
Genealogy of International Census Data, Part IIn the first of
a two-part series, David Mattison studies the census tradition within the
U.K., Scandinavia, and selected European countries and how cooperative
projects between governments, genealogists, social scientists, and church
organizations have begun to make these records much more accessible. Mattison
also looks at the software and standards developed by the research community
as well as privacy and copyright issues that surround census data.

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Access
to Government Information in a Post 9/11 World
Laura Gordon-Murnane
examines how the electronic information policy developed under the Clinton
administration has been changed under the Bush administration as a result
of the September 11th terrorist attacks.

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Desktop
Data Mapping
Catharine Palmer
critiques three mapping software products — MapPoint, Maptitude, and GeoMedia
— to see which will serve her best in a project requiring visual display
of 2000 Census data combined with IPO analysis.

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Desktop
GIS Tools for Demographic Information
Andrew Nicholson,
map and GIS librarian at the University of Oregon, compares two GIS applications,
ArcView and MapInfo, to help a variety of users decide which will work
best for them when extracting and accessing specific types of data.

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COLUMNS

Searcher's
VoiceIn "My Country,
Right or Wrong?," bq encourages information professionals to design a new
— gasp! — Web-based system for the delivery of federal information.

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Web
Wise Ways
Jill Ann Hurst
and David M. Oldenkamp find out just how well LexisNexis Statistical Universe,
one of the LN Universe Web packages, provides the various types of statistical
info you might need on the state, federal, international, and industry
levels.

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Internet
ExpressGot somewhere
to go? Or, need reliable information about a local or foreign locale? Irene
McDermott provides a plethora of portals and other online map resources,
from directional and instructional to aerial, historical, topographic,
and, yes, even extraterrestrial! (Can you say, "ET, map home"?)

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DEPARTMENTS

Contacts
Find the postal
and electronic addresses, phone and fax numbers for all the companies,
products, and people mentioned in this issue.